- Drew Pearson in Israel 5th Article in Series Israelis Favor Better Treatment for Arabs; Curtain Between Israel and Arabs Shows Cracks BY DREW PEARSON TEL AVIV—No country in mod- em history has had such odds lin- ed up against it as Israel. It is surrounded, directly or in- directly, by 13 Arab nations with a population of 100 million people holding 4 million square miles of territory. Israel has only 8,000 miles of terri- tory, in which „. live only 2,500,- 000 people. At one point Israel is only 7 miles wide. Those two and a half million people haxe ex- iperienced a n Pearson Arab boycott of their products, a refusal to let their ships pass through the Suez Canal, plus at- tempts to block their irrigation projects, flood their limited terri- tory with hostile refugees, isolate them in the United Nations, bar them from other international or- ganizations and, in brief, banish Israel from contacts with the world. None of these has succeeded. They have not succeeded because, as in the battle of David and Go- liath, of the agility, determination, and indomitable spirit of the Jew- ish people. But what of the fu- ture? Can one small nation hold out forever against such odds? The probable answer is: Given enough aid by American Jews, plus modern missiles from France to offset the German scientist-made missiles in Egypt, Israel can survive. However, no area wants to live under such tension. So the real long-range solution for the Near East is peaceful co- operation between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Israel's scien- tists, doctors, and economists have much to offer the Arabs in the way of health, harnessing the sun's rays, desalinization of water, eradication of flies and mosqui- toes, joint irrigation, use of elec- tric power, and industrial know- how. Nevertheless, the Dust Cur- tain between the two areas has long remained more opaque and impenetrable than the one-time Iron Curtain between East and West. A few encouraging cracks, how- ever, are beginning to show in the Dust Curtain. One was the election to the Is- raeli Knesset last November of Yuri Avnery, editor of "This World," who ran on a ticket of cooperation with the Arabs. He had maintained that the Israeli government was unfair to the Arab population inside Israel and must be more conciliatory toward the Arab population outside Israel. Avnery, a Jew, pounded on this theme so hard that the Eshkol government cracked down on him with the severest libel law in modern times. It removed truth as a defense against libel and since Avnery was publishing a weekly paper, set up an entirely different set of laws for weeklies as against dailies. When it came to libel by week- ly papers, not only the editor and publisher but the printers, the newsboys, and the newsstand ven- dors were held subject to criminal libel, with a penalty of one year in prison if convicted. So Avnery decided to run for the Knesset, where he would have im- munity from libel. He won. Fur- thermore he won by a command- ing margin, almost enough to elect two Knesset members in- stead of one. Avnery's first move as a mem- ber of the Knesset was to propose an Israeli Arab serve as speaker. He got nowhere. But he plans fur- ther moves, namely appointment of an Arab as deputy minister of religion, since there are both Chris- tians and Moslems living in Is- rael. On this he may win. On the other side of the Dust Curtain, President Bourguiba of Tunisia has bolted the rigid anti- Israel stand of Egypt's Nasser and said that Israel offers opportuni- ties for peaceful coexistence with the Arab world. The governments of Lebanon and Jordan, while not vocal, are known to hope for peaceful co- existence. King Hussein cannot come out for this any more than Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas can officially endorse school inte- (Direct JTA Teletype Wire fields, claiming ownership. The gration. Nevertheless, Faubus is to The Jewish News) TEL AVIV — An Israeli spokes- area is entirely within Israeli ter- integrating the schools of Arkan- sas while King Hussein is care- man reported Wednesday that Syri- ritory. (In Cairo Wednesday, Presi- fully avoiding war. an gunners southeast of Lake Ti- Second-Class Citizens berias opened fire Tuesday on an dent Gamal Abdel Nasser de- Meanwhile, Israel has a great Israeli tractor as it completed a nounced the United States' lat- ploughing assignment. An Israeli est arms sale to Israel and ac- opportunity to make the Arabs in- covering unit returned the fire. cused Washington and .London side its own boundaries a model of spurring the formation of a of Jewish-Moslem cooperation. There were no casualties. Cultivation of the fieldS started new conservative coalition in the There are 210,000 Arabs living in- Tuesday morning and the Syrians Middle East to oppose Arab side Israel; most of them are still under military rule. A group of did not try to interfere. When the revolutionaries. prominent Jewish and Arab pro- last of the tractors finished the (It was Nasser's sharpest criti- job, the Syrians suddenly opened cism of the U.S. in months, but fessors and intellectuals have or- with heavy machinegun fire. The his harshest words were reserved ganized "the Jewish-Arab Com- Syrians have consistently tried to for King Faisal of Saudi Arabia mittee for the Abolition of Military prevent Israeli ploughing of the and virtually tore up their six- Government"; but despite their ef- month-old peace agreement on forts, the Knesset voted, in Feb- ruary, 1963, 57 to 56; to continue Yemen. military rule. Parade Set for Haifa (Egypt's president threatened to Premier Eshkol had promised to Despite Opposition . keep an estimated 70,000 Egyptian put across "far-reaching reforms" troops in Yemen for five more in military government for the (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) years to see that a proper nation- Arabs, but those reforms turned JERUSALEM — The Parlia- al government is established. He mentary Foreign and Security Af- also attacked Habib Bouguiba of out to be so pallid that various Knesset members vigorously de- fairs Committee approved Wednes- Tunisia and the Shah of Iran. nounced them. Said Y. Khazin, a day the government's decision to (Ironically, Nasser's speech hold this year's Independence Day celebrated Egypt's union with member of the Alapam party: "This parade in Haifa after the matter Syria in 1958, a union that was administration has relegated the to the status of second-class was debated in the Knesset. broken up by a Syrian Army re- Arabs citizens." The issue was referred to com- volt in 1961. Only Tuesday it was The Arab population inside Is- mittee after a motion opposing learned that the Syrian premier the Haifa site decision was sub- has been overthrown by an army rael has benefited by the higher Israeli standard of living and in- - -., witted by former Premier David coup.) creased job opportunities; how- Ben-Gurion's Israel Workers Par- ever, young Arabs coming from ty and the Gahal Herut- Nazi Sentenced to Life Galilee to Haifa to get jobs find Liberal alignment. The two oppo- sition parties severely criticized for Killing Jews in Poland housing almost impossible. Jewish families will not take them in; so the decision at a plenary Knesset BOHN (JTA)—Kurt Jericho, 57, session last week, accusing the was sentenced to life imprison- young Arabs either have to adopt government of having yielded to ment in Lueneberg for murdering Jewish names or commute long pressure from foreign embassies four Jews, including two children, distances to and from their homes. who refuse to recognize Jerusalem in the Czenstochowa Ghetto in oc- The government has promised to build a hostel for Arab workers, as the capital of Israel. cupied Poland in 1942 and 1943. but so far has not done so. Every year these emissaries Alfred Loebel, 51, one of Jericho's The treatment of Arabs inside have made the same request to the co-defendants was acquitted. Israel remains the most important Israel government not to hold the The principal defendant is Paul parade in Jerusalem. However, Degenhardt, 71, charged with per- step the Israel government could under the premiership of David sonally murdering or ordering the take toward removing the Dust Ben-Gurion their request was re- execution of 496 Jews in the ghetto Curtain which now separates two Semitic people who should be jected. and with helping to choose thou- On the other hand, Premier Esh- sands of the ghetto's 50,000 prison- working together for peace. kol yielded and agreed to change ers for the gas chambers at the THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS the site of the parade. Treblinka death camp. Friday, February 25, 1966-9 Syrian Gunners Fire on Israelis; Nasser Accuses U.S., Britain of Plot Launch Construction of Rogosin School ASHDOD, Israel — Israel's stepped-up program of maritime training went into high gear here when ground was broken for a national nautical school spon- sored by textile magnate Israel Rogosin of Allen- hurst, N. J. 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